The No Kool-Aid Zone Blog
I Don't Drink The Kool-Aid. For Anybody.
A decision came down from Chick-fil-A corporate headquarters last week that has a few operators really hot and bothered. I won’t get into what it was all about; it’s an internal matter, and that’s enough said. One particular operator took the initiative to write a chain-wide email to express his strong disagreement with the decision…
Read MoreTrue confession: my wife and I like the film Ishtar. Really like it, think it’s hilarious. Yes, that Ishtar, the universally-panned, some-say-most-awful-film-ever. We crack up at it. If you have two minutes, watch the trailer, and note the irony in Dustin Hoffman’s words at the end: The signature song of the two aspiring songwriters (Hoffman…
Read MoreI offer the following for the purposes of a good laugh several months from now when my predictions are proven to be horribly wrong. Yes, yes, I know, I am making said predictions with knowledge of what transpired in most of Week One, but really, does it matter all that much? I mean, it’s not…
Read More“It was the first time I ever saw you cry, Dad”, said Practically-Perfect Daughter yesterday as we considered together the 10th anniversary of 9/11. I think we all knew instinctively that the world that we knew on 9/10 would never return to us. I remember a few things clearly: On the last normal night of…
Read MoreI’m in Sunday School this morning; we’re engaged in a study of Jeremiah, and it’s a good class, taught by a well-prepared teacher and filled with folks fluent in the Bible. The teacher referenced Hebrews 3:13-14, which reads, 12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to…
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